Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006

Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006

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Born in 1924 Hamburg, Germany, died 2006). Comp. Conservatory Stern, Berlin. Liljefors, Stockholm, M.M. Ponce, Mexico, Paul Hindemith, Yale. Compositions for solo instruments, voice, chamber music, orchestra, ballets and opera. Published: Oxford, Hildegard, Sisra, C. Fischer, E. Schirmer, Fine Arts. LPs & CDs. Performed worldwide. Distributor: Fine Arts Music Co., Box 311, Wykagyl, NY 10804.

Final Asencion

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

From the Life of a Pious Woman

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Tristana

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Comissioned by the Heidelberger Festival Ensamble; w/p 7-10-99.

Bells of Sarajevo

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: For virtuoso clarinetists. Passages fingered with harmonics. Hauntingly evocative concert piece.

Jocasta

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A post modern opera in 2 axts. Text by Helene Cicoux. Score for piano or synth. Commissioned by Voice and Vision, dire, by Marya Mazor.

Divertimenti for Diverse Instruments for Young Virtuosi

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn

Description: 3 tpt, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, drums For diverse groups of 2-4 students. Small pieces of 2-8 minutes. For grades 3-5.

String Quartet no. 3 (Holocaust in Memoriam)

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Anguish, and supplication expressed in multi-layered swirls of sound using the "Jewish" scale in bitonal ways; a last cry for help from God ending in dispair.

Wildunger Liederzyklus

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Highly expressive, serious, challenging songs.

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Modified version of "Theme I".

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme I

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: any string, electronics, guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Technically challenging.

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme II

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: electronics, guitar, tape

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Moderately difficult

Drie Liebesleider

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Three lovesongs in a light, flirtatious and romantic vein.

Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Very melodious, lyrical songcycle.

Abendruhe mit sussem Traum

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, timpani, vibraphone

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A more dramatic, technically challenging version. Requires a virtuostic vibraphonist.

Six Times Solitude

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: World Premiered Weill Hall, 1990, M. Chen, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Text: A.A. Milne.

65 Celebrations

Year: 1994

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: organ, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 65 Preludes, Interludes and Postinterludes in different keys for hte year round Church Holy Days. Duration from 40 seconds to 3 and a half minutes.

Soundtrack For A Dark Street (With Electric Guitar)

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: perc, synth, strs (sections: vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb) Premiered Symphony Space, NYC, 1993, Manhattan Chamber Orch (augmented), R. Auldon Clark, cond.

Improvisation for Solo Cello

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Expressive concert piece written for viruoso cellists.

Die Mauer vorher und nachher (The Wall before and after)

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute, percussion

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: pn, vln, vc, and narrator W/p 9/18/94: Galeriesaal des Kurpfalzischen Museums, Hiedelberg.

Improvisation For Clarinet & Piano

Year: 1993

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Abendruhe mit sussem Traum

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, vibraphone

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Nostalgic, tranquil, somewhat eerie with sudden appearances from fragmented, reharmonized "Der Lindenbaum" (Schubert).

Trompetengesange

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any brass, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, piano, trumpet, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: An anti-war sentiment in the first movement progresses to a bluesy finale.

Bird Over Jerusalem

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, electronics, flute, piano, tape

Description: Premiered Weill Hall, NY, Tadeo Coelho, flute, Joanne Polk, piano

String Quartet #2 ("In The Viennese Manner")

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 25'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Int Congress of Women in Music, Paris, 1984, Crescent Quartet. Perfs Mexico City; Heidelberg; Mannheim.

Improvisation in Three Interconnected Sections

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Description: Technically Challenging, virtuostic and expressive concert piece.

Ode to a Departing Swan

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Very accessible, melodious. Effective as an encore piece.

Homage A Garcia Lorca

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, percussion, timpani, viola

Description: Premiered Berlin, 1992.

Ingrid's Songs (Olbricht)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): Ingrid'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 4 songs, in German.

Bird's Song About

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): Bird'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered NYU, 1990, Robin Ambrogio, fl, Albert Zak, pn.

Self Portrait Of The Artist As An Older Woman

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;44'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Rec Cambria (CD) M. Mills., Box 37, Lomita, CA 90717.

Evening Music, Night Fantasy With Ocean Waves

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: tu, perc, vib, hp, pn, 2+222+, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb, tape of ocean-waves Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, New Orchestra of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond.

Collages

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bells, cello, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, flute, percussion, piano, soprano, synthesizer, timpani

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: drum, snaredrum, field drum From Das Knaben's Wunderhorn.

Toccata and Arietta

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition. Brilliant and expressive recital piece for the young virtuoso.

Princess Maleen

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: synth, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb Opera in 1 acts based on Grimm fairytale. Commissioned by Westchester Conservatory Music, Premiered White Plains Intermediate School, Conservatory Orch and chor, Elliot Megaziner, cond. Score for pn or DX-7 avail. Libretto: Ruth Schonthal and Wallis Wood

Sonata in Two Movements

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned by Delta Omicron Fraternity. Premiered Bad Wildungen, Germany, March 1992.

Tempation Of St. Anthony

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 19'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: premiered by 1st Presbyterian Ch, Greenwich, CT, 1990, R. Bouchett, org.

3 Celebrations "Happy Birthday Variations"

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any string, contrabass, percussion

Publisher: Fine Arts Music

Description: Premiered New Orch of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond, SUNY-Purchase. For Children's Concert.

Young Dead Soldiers (A. Mac Leish)

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Chamber version Premiered Stadthalle Unna, 1986 Germany, C. Schumann Chor & Orch, M. Blankenberg, cond. Larger orch and chor Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, 1987, New Orch of Westchester, Westchester Chor Soc, Ossining Chor Soc, P. Dunkel, cond.

Operatic Cradle Song

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any low voice

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: text "The Blood Wedding," Lorca, in Spanish. Premiered Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, B. Bramson, sop, A. Zia, al, R. Schonthal, pn.

Seven Times Solitude

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 7 songs. Premiered CA, D. Kavish, sop. Text by A. A. Milne.

Canticles Of Hieronymos

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned/Premiered by National Gallery of Art, Wash, DC, Margaret Mills,pn. Perfs Florida, Heidelberg. Rec Cambria Rec. CD M. Mills.

From North And South Of The Border

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Youngtown Piano Encores

Description: Grade II-III for the older student; teaching material. Collection of pieces.

Inventions For Harpsichord

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Orig for harpsichord. Premiered Wash DC, G. Rank, pn. Perfs NY Cultural Center, Westchester Conservatory of Music."

Fourteen Inventions

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 14 contrapuntal short works, inspired by Bach's two-part inventions, in a contemporary idiom.

Evocation

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: contrabass, percussion, viola

Publisher: Fine Arts Music

Description: vc, cb Premiered Rochester, NY, Orch of Rochester.

Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: harp

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Town Hall, NYC, 1983, S. Cutler, hp, Conn Chamber Orch, S. Stone, cond, other performed Westchester Symphony, S. Cutler, hp, M. Cannelakis, cond. performed Fleischer Coll, Philadelphia, PA.

Three Elegies

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: W/P Feb. 1982: The Westchester Conservatory of Music, White Plains, NY; R. Schonthal, p.

Fragments From A Woman's Diary

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Premiered Ithaca Coll, R. Tobey,pn. performed by Merkin Hall, NYC, Heidelberg, Bonn. Rec Orion, G. Steigerwalt,"

Solitary Reaper

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Text by W. Wordsworth. Premiered Carnegie Hall, P. Sperry, ten, with NY Lyric Trio. Also performed Nat Acad Sc, Wash DC, C. Haeffner, sop, New World Players; Mercy Col, Dobbs Ferry, NY, NYU, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC.

Near And Far

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Description: Grade II, for the older student; teaching material.

Miniscules

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.

Description: Grade I, teaching material. "

Miniatures

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: 3 vols for Grade I, II, III; teaching material. Galaxy/

Bird Calls

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Interlude

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: harp

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: premiered by Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, G. Cassat, hp.

Courtship Of Camilla

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 2222 4332, perc, pn, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb; or pn or synth - Unperformed. Opera in 1 or 2 acts. Text by A.A. Milne,

Music For Horn And Piano

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo brass instrument, solo brass with piano, solo instrument other than piano, solo instrument with piano

Instruments: any brass, horn, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered La Guardia College, Queens, 1978, A. Goldstein, hn, R. Schonthal, pn.

In Homage Of...

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 24 short preludes. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, A. Chien,pn. Perfs Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, Boston; Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt,"

Gestures

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1979, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Northridge, CA, Heidelberg, Germany.

Music For Horn & Chamber Orchestra

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass, horn, viola

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered McMillan Theatre, 1980, Columbia Univ Orch, B. Tillitson, hn, D. Monson, cond. Rec members of Israeli Phil, R. Meir, hn, S. Ronly-Riklis, cond, Crystal Label #5673; also avail version for hn, pn.

Fantasia In A Nostalgic Mood

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: premiered by Carnegie Recital Hall, 1982, D. Starobin, guit.

Concerto #2 For Piano And Orchestra

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 36'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tu, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc Very Pianistic; in the concerto tradition yet in an accessable contemporary idiom.

Songs Of Love And Sorrow

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: high v; Cycle of 7 songs, texts by Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Browning, Houseman, Barrett-Browning. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Dumbarton Meth Ch, Wash DC.

Sonata Concertante For Clarinet And Piano

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn. Rec LP Orion, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn.

Four Epiphanies

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

By The Roadside

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: text: W. Whitman.

Loveletters For Clarinet And Cello

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc. Perfs Christ & St. Stephens, NYC; German Embassy; National Gallery of Art. Rec Capriccio, E. Lamneck, cl, M. Rudiakov, vc.

Variations In Search Of A Theme

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: Premiered 5th Ave. Presbyterian Ch, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Berlin, Heidelberg, Mexico City, Sidney. Rec LP Orion.

Nachklange (Reverberations)

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, R. Schonthal.

Sonata Concertante For Viola And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, viola

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Seckel, va, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, London; St. Michaels Ch, NYC; Heidelberg.

Sonata Concertante For Cello And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Hofheim, Germany, M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn; recorded Orion M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn.

Sonatensatz

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Juilliard, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, 92nd St. Y, NYC, Carnegie Recital Hall. Rec LP Orion, G. Steigerwalt. MS facsimile only." Furore- Verlag

Sonata Breve

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Juilliard, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Carnegie Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberg, Holheim, Cologne. Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt," Furore- Verlag

Sonata Quasi un 'Improvisazione'

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 39;Improvisazione&

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, R. Schonthal, pn.

Preludes In Blue

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: MS facsimile only.

Totengesange

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Almost "Schoenbergian", challenging cycle for both artists.

Totengesange (Songs Of Death)

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Cycle of 6 songs. Text by R. Schonthal, in German. Premiered Carnegie R H, NYC, 1964, B. Beardslee, sop, Schontal, pn.. Perfs CRHall, B. Bramson, National Arts Club, H. Lightner, Wigmore, Nendick, S. Lawrence, Rowe. Rec Leonarda, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn.

Sonata For Violin & Piano

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, S. Monosoff, vn, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs: College of New Rochelle; Ithaca, NY; Mannheim; Cologne; Bonn.

String Quartet #1

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 13 brief continuous movements. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1964, York Quartet. Rec Leonarda, Crescent Quartet.

Fiestas Y Danzas

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC, H. Stessin,pn, 196. Rec Leonarda CD, N. Kaplan Solomon.

Sonata in E

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A "conversational" first movement, a very expressive second and a rousing finale make this a fine recital piece in the conservative modern vein.

Transposed Heads

Year: 1951

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Description: Pal. del Ballas Artes, Mexico City, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad P. Moncayo, M. Montoya, choreographer.

Nine Lyric-Dramatic Songs

Year: 1949

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, mezzo soprano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 2, va, vc, cb also version with pn; text: W.B. Yeats.

Sonata In E Flat

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Yale Univ, 198, R. Schonthal,pn."

Early Songs

Year: 1946

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Southern Music

Four Songs

Year: 1943

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Southern Music

Two Songs

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: low or med v; in Spanish. Words by Fed. Garcia Lorca. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico, J. Aguilar, sop.

Concerto Romantico

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 36'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: concertos

Description: Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes Mexico City, 1943, Orch de la Universidad, J. Rocabruna, cond, R. Schonthal, pn. Perusal score.

3 Songs With Words By Li Po

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Description: med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mex City, 1942, J. Aguilar, sop.

Songs With Words By R.M. Rilke

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: high or med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, 1941, J. Aguilar, sop. Perfs Times Hall, NYC, Wash. DC, Heidelberg.

Sonata In A

Year: 1939

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. (P. Lundberg, Stockholm.) Furore- Verlag

Pentatonics

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Potpourrie

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Japanese Sketches

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 3 books, for Junior, Lower Intermediate, and Intermediate. Descriptive, very poetic imaginative pieces using pentatonic scales in many different keys, bitonality and interesting textures.

Heidelberger Fanfare with Variations

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Written for the 500th Anniversary of the City of Heidelberg. Eleven short pianistic variations based on the letters Hedebeg.

Educational Piano Music (Collections)

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: For grade 1-2.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1924 Hamburg, Germany, died 2006). Comp. Conservatory Stern, Berlin. Liljefors, Stockholm, M.M. Ponce, Mexico, Paul Hindemith, Yale. Compositions for solo instruments, voice, chamber music, orchestra, ballets and opera. Published: Oxford, Hildegard, Sisra, C. Fischer, E. Schirmer, Fine Arts. LPs & CDs. Performed worldwide. Distributor: Fine Arts Music Co., Box 311, Wykagyl, NY 10804.
COMPOSITIONS

Final Asencion

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

From the Life of a Pious Woman

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Tristana

Year: 1999

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Comissioned by the Heidelberger Festival Ensamble; w/p 7-10-99.

Bells of Sarajevo

Year: 1997

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: For virtuoso clarinetists. Passages fingered with harmonics. Hauntingly evocative concert piece.

Jocasta

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A post modern opera in 2 axts. Text by Helene Cicoux. Score for piano or synth. Commissioned by Voice and Vision, dire, by Marya Mazor.

Divertimenti for Diverse Instruments for Young Virtuosi

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn

Description: 3 tpt, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, drums For diverse groups of 2-4 students. Small pieces of 2-8 minutes. For grades 3-5.

String Quartet no. 3 (Holocaust in Memoriam)

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Anguish, and supplication expressed in multi-layered swirls of sound using the "Jewish" scale in bitonal ways; a last cry for help from God ending in dispair.

Wildunger Liederzyklus

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any voice, mezzo soprano, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Highly expressive, serious, challenging songs.

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Modified version of "Theme I".

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme I

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: any string, electronics, guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Technically challenging.

Fantasy - Variations on a Jewish Liturgical Theme II

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: electronic and computer works, solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: electronics, guitar, tape

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Five mielismatic variations. Moderately difficult

Drie Liebesleider

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Three lovesongs in a light, flirtatious and romantic vein.

Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow

Year: 1997

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Very melodious, lyrical songcycle.

Abendruhe mit sussem Traum

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, timpani, vibraphone

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A more dramatic, technically challenging version. Requires a virtuostic vibraphonist.

Six Times Solitude

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: World Premiered Weill Hall, 1990, M. Chen, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Text: A.A. Milne.

65 Celebrations

Year: 1994

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Instruments: organ, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 65 Preludes, Interludes and Postinterludes in different keys for hte year round Church Holy Days. Duration from 40 seconds to 3 and a half minutes.

Soundtrack For A Dark Street (With Electric Guitar)

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: perc, synth, strs (sections: vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb) Premiered Symphony Space, NYC, 1993, Manhattan Chamber Orch (augmented), R. Auldon Clark, cond.

Improvisation for Solo Cello

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: cello

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Expressive concert piece written for viruoso cellists.

Die Mauer vorher und nachher (The Wall before and after)

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute, percussion

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: pn, vln, vc, and narrator W/p 9/18/94: Galeriesaal des Kurpfalzischen Museums, Hiedelberg.

Improvisation For Clarinet & Piano

Year: 1993

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Abendruhe mit sussem Traum

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, percussion, piano, vibraphone

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Nostalgic, tranquil, somewhat eerie with sudden appearances from fragmented, reharmonized "Der Lindenbaum" (Schubert).

Trompetengesange

Year: 1993

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any brass, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, piano, trumpet, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: An anti-war sentiment in the first movement progresses to a bluesy finale.

Bird Over Jerusalem

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, electronics, flute, piano, tape

Description: Premiered Weill Hall, NY, Tadeo Coelho, flute, Joanne Polk, piano

String Quartet #2 ("In The Viennese Manner")

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 25'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Int Congress of Women in Music, Paris, 1984, Crescent Quartet. Perfs Mexico City; Heidelberg; Mannheim.

Improvisation in Three Interconnected Sections

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Description: Technically Challenging, virtuostic and expressive concert piece.

Ode to a Departing Swan

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Very accessible, melodious. Effective as an encore piece.

Homage A Garcia Lorca

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, harp, percussion, timpani, viola

Description: Premiered Berlin, 1992.

Ingrid's Songs (Olbricht)

Year: 1992

Duration (in minutes): Ingrid'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 4 songs, in German.

Bird's Song About

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): Bird'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered NYU, 1990, Robin Ambrogio, fl, Albert Zak, pn.

Self Portrait Of The Artist As An Older Woman

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;44'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Rec Cambria (CD) M. Mills., Box 37, Lomita, CA 90717.

Evening Music, Night Fantasy With Ocean Waves

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: tu, perc, vib, hp, pn, 2+222+, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb, tape of ocean-waves Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, New Orchestra of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond.

Collages

Year: 1991

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bells, cello, clarinet, contrabass, electronics, flute, percussion, piano, soprano, synthesizer, timpani

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: drum, snaredrum, field drum From Das Knaben's Wunderhorn.

Toccata and Arietta

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition. Brilliant and expressive recital piece for the young virtuoso.

Princess Maleen

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: synth, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb Opera in 1 acts based on Grimm fairytale. Commissioned by Westchester Conservatory Music, Premiered White Plains Intermediate School, Conservatory Orch and chor, Elliot Megaziner, cond. Score for pn or DX-7 avail. Libretto: Ruth Schonthal and Wallis Wood

Sonata in Two Movements

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned by Delta Omicron Fraternity. Premiered Bad Wildungen, Germany, March 1992.

Tempation Of St. Anthony

Year: 1989

Duration (in minutes): 19'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano

Instruments: organ

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: premiered by 1st Presbyterian Ch, Greenwich, CT, 1990, R. Bouchett, org.

3 Celebrations "Happy Birthday Variations"

Year: 1988

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: any string, contrabass, percussion

Publisher: Fine Arts Music

Description: Premiered New Orch of Westchester, P. Dunkel, cond, SUNY-Purchase. For Children's Concert.

Young Dead Soldiers (A. Mac Leish)

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Chamber version Premiered Stadthalle Unna, 1986 Germany, C. Schumann Chor & Orch, M. Blankenberg, cond. Larger orch and chor Premiered SUNY, Purchase, NY, 1987, New Orch of Westchester, Westchester Chor Soc, Ossining Chor Soc, P. Dunkel, cond.

Operatic Cradle Song

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: alto, any low voice

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: text "The Blood Wedding," Lorca, in Spanish. Premiered Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, B. Bramson, sop, A. Zia, al, R. Schonthal, pn.

Seven Times Solitude

Year: 1987

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 7 songs. Premiered CA, D. Kavish, sop. Text by A. A. Milne.

Canticles Of Hieronymos

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Commissioned/Premiered by National Gallery of Art, Wash, DC, Margaret Mills,pn. Perfs Florida, Heidelberg. Rec Cambria Rec. CD M. Mills.

From North And South Of The Border

Year: 1986

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Youngtown Piano Encores

Description: Grade II-III for the older student; teaching material. Collection of pieces.

Inventions For Harpsichord

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Orig for harpsichord. Premiered Wash DC, G. Rank, pn. Perfs NY Cultural Center, Westchester Conservatory of Music."

Fourteen Inventions

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 28'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 14 contrapuntal short works, inspired by Bach's two-part inventions, in a contemporary idiom.

Evocation

Year: 1984

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: contrabass, percussion, viola

Publisher: Fine Arts Music

Description: vc, cb Premiered Rochester, NY, Orch of Rochester.

Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez

Year: 1983

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: harp

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Town Hall, NYC, 1983, S. Cutler, hp, Conn Chamber Orch, S. Stone, cond, other performed Westchester Symphony, S. Cutler, hp, M. Cannelakis, cond. performed Fleischer Coll, Philadelphia, PA.

Three Elegies

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: W/P Feb. 1982: The Westchester Conservatory of Music, White Plains, NY; R. Schonthal, p.

Fragments From A Woman's Diary

Year: 1982

Duration (in minutes): Woman'39;s

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Premiered Ithaca Coll, R. Tobey,pn. performed by Merkin Hall, NYC, Heidelberg, Bonn. Rec Orion, G. Steigerwalt,"

Solitary Reaper

Year: 1981

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Text by W. Wordsworth. Premiered Carnegie Hall, P. Sperry, ten, with NY Lyric Trio. Also performed Nat Acad Sc, Wash DC, C. Haeffner, sop, New World Players; Mercy Col, Dobbs Ferry, NY, NYU, Christ & St. Stephens, NYC.

Near And Far

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Description: Grade II, for the older student; teaching material.

Miniscules

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fischer, Inc.

Description: Grade I, teaching material. "

Miniatures

Year: 1980

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer

Description: 3 vols for Grade I, II, III; teaching material. Galaxy/

Bird Calls

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Interlude

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: harp

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: premiered by Dumbarton Meth Ch, Washington, DC, G. Cassat, hp.

Courtship Of Camilla

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 45'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 2222 4332, perc, pn, vn-1, vn-2, va, vc, cb; or pn or synth - Unperformed. Opera in 1 or 2 acts. Text by A.A. Milne,

Music For Horn And Piano

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, orchestra and chamber orchestra, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo brass instrument, solo brass with piano, solo instrument other than piano, solo instrument with piano

Instruments: any brass, horn, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered La Guardia College, Queens, 1978, A. Goldstein, hn, R. Schonthal, pn.

In Homage Of...

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 24 short preludes. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, A. Chien,pn. Perfs Ithaca, NY, Los Angeles, Boston; Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt,"

Gestures

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1979, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Northridge, CA, Heidelberg, Germany.

Music For Horn & Chamber Orchestra

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, contrabass, horn, viola

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered McMillan Theatre, 1980, Columbia Univ Orch, B. Tillitson, hn, D. Monson, cond. Rec members of Israeli Phil, R. Meir, hn, S. Ronly-Riklis, cond, Crystal Label #5673; also avail version for hn, pn.

Fantasia In A Nostalgic Mood

Year: 1978

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: guitar

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: premiered by Carnegie Recital Hall, 1982, D. Starobin, guit.

Concerto #2 For Piano And Orchestra

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 36'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tu, pn, 2 vln, vla, vc Very Pianistic; in the concerto tradition yet in an accessable contemporary idiom.

Songs Of Love And Sorrow

Year: 1977

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: high v; Cycle of 7 songs, texts by Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Browning, Houseman, Barrett-Browning. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn. Dumbarton Meth Ch, Wash DC.

Sonata Concertante For Clarinet And Piano

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn. Rec LP Orion, E. Lamneck, cl, G. Steigerwalt, pn.

Four Epiphanies

Year: 1976

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument

Instruments: viola

Publisher: Oxford University Press

By The Roadside

Year: 1975

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: text: W. Whitman.

Loveletters For Clarinet And Cello

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, M. Kupferman, cl, D. Moore, vc. Perfs Christ & St. Stephens, NYC; German Embassy; National Gallery of Art. Rec Capriccio, E. Lamneck, cl, M. Rudiakov, vc.

Variations In Search Of A Theme

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: Premiered 5th Ave. Presbyterian Ch, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Berlin, Heidelberg, Mexico City, Sidney. Rec LP Orion.

Nachklange (Reverberations)

Year: 1974

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, R. Schonthal.

Sonata Concertante For Viola And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, viola

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, B. Seckel, va, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, London; St. Michaels Ch, NYC; Heidelberg.

Sonata Concertante For Cello And Piano

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Hofheim, Germany, M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn; recorded Orion M. Neumann, vc, J. Stein, pn.

Sonatensatz

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Juilliard, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Wigmore Hall, 92nd St. Y, NYC, Carnegie Recital Hall. Rec LP Orion, G. Steigerwalt. MS facsimile only." Furore- Verlag

Sonata Breve

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Juilliard, NYC, G. Steigerwalt,pn. Perfs Carnegie Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberg, Holheim, Cologne. Rec Orion G. Steigerwalt," Furore- Verlag

Sonata Quasi un 'Improvisazione'

Year: 1964

Duration (in minutes): 39;Improvisazione&

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered College of New Rochelle, R. Schonthal, pn.

Preludes In Blue

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: MS facsimile only.

Totengesange

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Almost "Schoenbergian", challenging cycle for both artists.

Totengesange (Songs Of Death)

Year: 1963

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Cycle of 6 songs. Text by R. Schonthal, in German. Premiered Carnegie R H, NYC, 1964, B. Beardslee, sop, Schontal, pn.. Perfs CRHall, B. Bramson, National Arts Club, H. Lightner, Wigmore, Nendick, S. Lawrence, Rowe. Rec Leonarda, B. Bramson, sop, R. Schonthal, pn.

Sonata For Violin & Piano

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, violin

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, S. Monosoff, vn, R. Schonthal, pn. Perfs: College of New Rochelle; Ithaca, NY; Mannheim; Cologne; Bonn.

String Quartet #1

Year: 1962

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 13 brief continuous movements. Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, 1964, York Quartet. Rec Leonarda, Crescent Quartet.

Fiestas Y Danzas

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Premiered Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC, H. Stessin,pn, 196. Rec Leonarda CD, N. Kaplan Solomon.

Sonata in E

Year: 1961

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: A "conversational" first movement, a very expressive second and a rousing finale make this a fine recital piece in the conservative modern vein.

Transposed Heads

Year: 1951

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera

Description: Pal. del Ballas Artes, Mexico City, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad P. Moncayo, M. Montoya, choreographer.

Nine Lyric-Dramatic Songs

Year: 1949

Duration (in minutes): 21'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Instruments: cello, mezzo soprano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 2, va, vc, cb also version with pn; text: W.B. Yeats.

Sonata In E Flat

Year: 1947

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Yale Univ, 198, R. Schonthal,pn."

Early Songs

Year: 1946

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Southern Music

Four Songs

Year: 1943

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Publisher: Southern Music

Two Songs

Year: 1943

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: low or med v; in Spanish. Words by Fed. Garcia Lorca. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico, J. Aguilar, sop.

Concerto Romantico

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 36'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: concertos

Description: Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes Mexico City, 1943, Orch de la Universidad, J. Rocabruna, cond, R. Schonthal, pn. Perusal score.

3 Songs With Words By Li Po

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: piano, soprano

Description: med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mex City, 1942, J. Aguilar, sop.

Songs With Words By R.M. Rilke

Year: 1942

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: high or med v; in German. Premiered Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, 1941, J. Aguilar, sop. Perfs Times Hall, NYC, Wash. DC, Heidelberg.

Sonata In A

Year: 1939

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Premiered Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. (P. Lundberg, Stockholm.) Furore- Verlag

Pentatonics

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Potpourrie

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Carl Fisher, Inc.

Japanese Sketches

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: 3 books, for Junior, Lower Intermediate, and Intermediate. Descriptive, very poetic imaginative pieces using pentatonic scales in many different keys, bitonality and interesting textures.

Heidelberger Fanfare with Variations

Duration (in minutes): 7'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Furore-Verlag

Description: Written for the 500th Anniversary of the City of Heidelberg. Eleven short pianistic variations based on the letters Hedebeg.

Educational Piano Music (Collections)

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Publisher: Sisra Press

Description: For grade 1-2.

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